Sir William Henry Gates III KBE (October 28, 1955-), also known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and billionaire. He is the founder of Microsoft, and according to Forbes magazine, Gates is the richest man in the world. Another statistic says that Gates alone has more wealth than the poorest 50% of the world's population.
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Gates was born in Seattle, on the West Coast of the U.S., to an upper-class family and a father who was a prominent local attorney. Gates was a brilliant student and was known for his extreme individualism; according to the recollections of one of his high school classmates, Gates once asserted that he would be a billionaire by the age of 25. In the 1970s, while still a student at Harvard University, Gates worked with his partner Paul Allen to design the Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 computer, the first commercially successful personal computer, and the BASIC language, an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn computer programming language, which Gates and Allen developed. The version of BASIC that Gates and Allen developed was later known as Microsoft BASIC, and was the basis for the MS-DOS operating system, which in turn was the key to Microsoft's early success. Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and evolved into Visual Basic, which is still popular today.
In the early 1970s, Gates wrote a famous "Open Letter to Enthusiasts" that shocked the computer community and put a damper on its reputation. The first time he wrote this letter, he was not able to get a copy of the book, but he was able to get a copy of it. The idea is to make the computer more efficient. Receipts and alligator can you get a good deal on the bench. Can I get a copy of the book? Can I get a copy of the book "The Riddle of the Lopsided"? Can I get a refund? Can you get a good deal on a food dish with a 5-point let down? What are the carrots and the carrots of the carrots and the carrots of the carrots? What is the second most important thing? What's the name of the company? What is the protection? What is the most important thing that you can do to protect yourself? The company was founded as a transformer, and gradually became the first company in the world to be recognized as a leader in the industry. Flower D-Microsoft and gradually industrialize the software.
But one of Gates's business maneuvers that often attracted criticism was the origin of MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, and needed to find a suitable operating system for its products, based on the Intel x86 family of processors.IBM found Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, without telling IBM that it was negotiating with them, approached Seattle Computer to buy the operating system they had developed from them for a reported $50,000 (Microsoft supporters claim that there was an agreement between Microsoft and IBM at the time that Microsoft was not to disclose the negotiation to outsiders). Microsoft then later licensed the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS) to IBM. Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the altered MS-DOS system on every new computer. Seattle Computer later sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at very low prices without telling them the facts, but the two sides eventually settled out of court. Gates' reputation was tarnished again by a series of U.S. government monopoly suits against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
Gates aggressively promoted CD-ROMs in the mid-1980s because he was optimistic about the future of the optical disk as a data-storage medium.
Gates was also accused of business misconduct. Gates was repeatedly accused of violating U.S. law with many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership.
In 2000, Gates appointed his longtime friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive and himself as "chief software architect.
In his private life, on January 1, 1994, Gates married Linda French. They have three children, Jennifer Kathleen Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
Together with his wife, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization. Critics see the creation of the foundation as simply a response to negative public comments about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. But we should also note that, regardless of its motives, the foundation has made significant contributions to scholarships for poor students and to the fight against AIDS.
In 2004, the British Foreign Office announced that Bill Gates would be enthroned by the Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to enterprise development, employment, education and voluntary work in the U.K. A KBE is the highest honorary distinction that the Queen can bestow on a foreign national.
Estimated property value
According to Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, Gates' wealth is as follows:
1996 - $18.5 billion, in first place
1997 - $36.4 billion, in second place
1998 - $51 billion, in first place
1999 - $90 billion, No. 1
2000 - $60 billion, No. 1
2001 - $58.7 billion, No. 1
2002 - $52.8 billion, No. 1
2003 - $40.7 billion, No. 1
Award/Honor Record
Record of Recognition by the The Guardian UK as one of the 100 most influential people in journalism in 2001
Named one of the most powerful people of 1999 by The Sunday Times UK
Second place in Upside's Elite 100 of 1999
Time magazine's Elite 50 Internet Elite #1 of 1998
The Sporting News' 1997 Sports' 100 Most Powerful People of the Year
CEO Magazine's 1994 CEO of the Year
Entomologists have also named a flower bug after him, the Gates's aphid fly
Crowned a knight by the Queen of England in 2004.
Assets: How much money does Bill Gates really have?
In 2004, which was the tenth year, Bill Gates sat atop the Forbes list of billionaires. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman has lived in a two-hectare, $110 million mansion since 1997. He was also the world's most generous man in 2004, with more than $3 billion in charitable donations.
According to Forbes. According to Forbes, the computer age "wizard" now has a net worth of 46.6 billion U.S. dollars, which is still much less than the 100 billion U.S. dollar record he set in 1998, but this kind of wealth is already beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Perhaps this calculation will be easier to understand:
Gates earn 250 U.S. dollars per second, that is, 20 million U.S. dollars a day, a year to earn 7.8 billion U.S. dollars;
If Gates dropped 1,000 U.S. dollars, he was not too lazy to pick up, because he went to pick up to spend 4 seconds, this stooping down, he has earned back 1,000 U.S. dollars;
the United States of America's national debt of about 5,620,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, if by Gates to pay back, he will be the first time in the world to do so.
If Gates were to pay it back, he could pay off America's debt in 10 years;
If Gates were to donate 15 dollars to everyone on the planet, at the end of the day, he would still have 5 million dollars left over for pocket money;
If Gates were a country, he would be the 37th richest on the planet, or America's 13th largest company, even larger than IBM;
If Gates converted all his money into 1 US dollar a piece, you could build a road connecting the Earth and the Moon 14 times back and forth, but you would have to build that road non-stop for 1,400 years and use 731 Boeing 747 airplanes to transport that money.
I really don't know how he could spend all that money ~~~~
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Bill Gates Profile Story Resume Profile Biography
Sir William Henry Gates III KBE (October 28, 1955-), also known as Bill Gates is known as an American businessman and billionaire. He is the founder of Microsoft, and according to Forbes magazine, Gates is the richest man in the world. Another statistic says that Gates alone has more wealth than the poorest 50% of the world's population.
BiographyStoryResumeProfileBiography
Gates was born in Seattle, on the West Coast of the U.S., to an upper-class family and a father who was a prominent local attorney. Gates was a brilliant student and was known for his extreme individualism; according to the recollections of one of his high school classmates, Gates once asserted that he would be a billionaire by the age of 25. In the 1970s, while still a student at Harvard University, Gates worked with his partner Paul Allen to design the Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 computer, the first commercially successful personal computer, and the BASIC language, an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn computer programming language, which Gates and Allen developed. The version of BASIC that Gates and Allen developed was later known as Microsoft BASIC, and was the basis for the MS-DOS operating system, which in turn was the key to Microsoft's early success. Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and evolved into Visual Basic, which is still popular today.
Young GatesIn the early 1970s, Gates shocked the computer world by writing his famous Open Letter to Enthusiasts. Gates declared that computer software would be a huge commercial market and that computer hobbyists should not be free to copy computer programs without the consent of the original authors. The computer world at the time was influenced by the hacker culture and believed that creativity and knowledge should be ****enjoyed. Gates then left campus and single-handedly founded Microsoft, one of the world's most successful companies, and gradually industrialized software.
But one of Gates' business maneuvers that often attracted criticism was the origin of MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, and needed to find a suitable operating system for its products, based on the Intel x86 family of processors.IBM found Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, approached Seattle Computer without telling IBM that it was negotiating with them, and purchased the operating system they had developed from the company for a reported $50,000 (Microsoft supporters claim that there was an agreement between Microsoft and IBM at the time that Microsoft was not to disclose the negotiation to outsiders). Microsoft then later licensed the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS) to IBM. Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the altered MS-DOS system on every new computer. Seattle Computer later sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at very low prices without telling them the facts, but the two sides eventually settled out of court. Gates' reputation was tarnished again by a series of U.S. government monopoly suits against Microsoft in the late 1990s.
In the mid-1980s Gates was optimistic about the future of the optical disk as a data storage medium and aggressively promoted the CD-ROM.
Gates was also accused of business misconduct. Gates was repeatedly accused of violating U.S. law with many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership.
In 2000, Gates appointed his longtime friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive and himself as "chief software architect.
In his private life, on January 1, 1994, Gates married Linda French. They have three children, Jennifer Kathleen Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002).
Together with his wife, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization. Critics see the creation of the foundation as simply a response to negative public comments about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. But we should also note that, regardless of its motives, the foundation has made significant contributions to scholarships for poor students and to the fight against AIDS.
In 2004, the British Foreign Office announced that Bill Gates would be enthroned by the Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to enterprise development, employment, education and voluntary work in the U.K. A KBE is the highest honorary distinction that the Queen can bestow on a foreign national.
Estimated property value
According to Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, Gates' wealth is as follows:
1996 - $18.5 billion, in first place
1997 - $36.4 billion, in second place
1998 - $51 billion, in first place
1999 - $90 billion, No. 1
2000 - $60 billion, No. 1
2001 - $58.7 billion, No. 1
2002 - $52.8 billion, No. 1
2003 - $40.7 billion, No. 1
Award/Honor Record
Record of Recognition by the The Guardian UK as one of the 100 most influential people in journalism in 2001
Named one of the most powerful people of 1999 by The Sunday Times UK
Second place in Upside's Elite 100 of 1999
Time magazine's Elite 50 Internet Elite #1 of 1998
The Sporting News' 1997 Sports' 100 Most Powerful People of the Year
CEO Magazine's 1994 CEO of the Year
Entomologists have also named a flower bug after him, the Gates's aphid fly
Crowned a knight by the Queen of England in 2004.
Assets: How much money does Bill Gates really have?
In 2004, which was the tenth year, Bill Gates sat atop the Forbes list of billionaires. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman has lived in a two-hectare, $110 million mansion since 1997. He was also the world's most generous man in 2004, with more than $3 billion in charitable donations.
According to Forbes. According to Forbes, the computer age "wizard" now has a net worth of 46.6 billion U.S. dollars, which is still much less than the 100 billion U.S. dollar record he set in 1998, but this kind of wealth is already beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Perhaps this calculation will be easier to understand:
Gates earn 250 U.S. dollars per second, that is, 20 million U.S. dollars a day, a year to earn 7.8 billion U.S. dollars;
If Gates dropped 1,000 U.S. dollars, he was not too lazy to pick up, because he went to pick up to spend 4 seconds, this stooping down, he has earned back 1,000 U.S. dollars;
the United States of America's national debt of about 5,620,000,000,000 U.S. dollars, if by Gates to pay back, he will be the first time in the world to do so.
If Gates were to pay it back, he could pay off America's debt in 10 years;
If Gates were to donate 15 dollars to everyone on the planet, at the end of the day, he would still have 5 million dollars left over for pocket money;
If Gates were a country, he would be the 37th richest on the planet, or America's 13th largest company, even larger than IBM;
If Gates converted all his money into 1 US dollar a piece, you could build a road connecting the Earth and the Moon 14 times back and forth, but you would have to build that road non-stop for 1,400 years and use 731 Boeing 747 airplanes to transport that money.
I really don't know how he's going to spend all that money ~~~~
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Reference: Respondent: Ho Lang Mo Re - Apprentice Wizard II 8-29 21:00 Sir William Henry Gates III ( William Henry Gates III KBE, October 28, 1955-), also known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and billionaire. He is the founder of Microsoft, and according to Forbes magazine, Gates is the richest man in the world. Another statistic says that Gates alone has more wealth than the poorest 50 percent of the world's population. Gates was born in Seattle, on the west coast of the United States, to an upper-class family and a father who was a prominent local lawyer. Gates was a brilliant student and was known for his extreme individualism; according to the recollections of one of his high school classmates, Gates once asserted that he would be a billionaire by the time he was 25. In the 1970s, while still a student at Harvard University, Gates worked with his partner Paul Allen to design the Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 computer, the first commercially successful personal computer, and the BASIC language, an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn computer programming language, which Gates and Allen developed. The version of BASIC that Gates and Allen developed was later known as Microsoft BASIC, and was the basis for the MS-DOS operating system, which in turn was the key to Microsoft's early success. Microsoft Basic later became Microsoft QuickBasic, and evolved into Visual Basic, which is still popular today. Young GatesIn the early 1970s, Gates shocked the computer world by writing his famous Open Letter to Enthusiasts. Gates declared that computer software would be a huge commercial market and that computer hobbyists should not be free to copy computer programs without the consent of the original authors. The computer world at the time was influenced by the hacker culture and believed that creativity and knowledge should be ****enjoyed. Gates then left campus and single-handedly founded Microsoft, one of the world's most successful companies, and gradually industrialized software. But one of Gates' business maneuvers that often attracted criticism was the origin of MS-DOS. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, and needed to find a suitable operating system for its products, based on the Intel x86 family of processors.IBM found Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, without telling IBM that it was negotiating with them, approached Seattle Computer to buy the operating system they had developed from them for a reported $50,000 (Microsoft supporters claim that there was an agreement between Microsoft and IBM at the time that Microsoft was not to disclose the negotiation to outsiders). Microsoft then later licensed the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS) to IBM. Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the altered MS-DOS system on every new computer. Seattle Computer later sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at very low prices without telling them the facts, but the two sides eventually settled out of court. Gates' reputation was tarnished again by a series of U.S. government monopoly suits against Microsoft in the late 1990s. Gates aggressively promoted CD-ROMs in the mid-1980s because he was optimistic about the future of the optical disk as a data-storage medium. Gates was also accused of business misconduct. Gates was repeatedly accused of violating U.S. law with many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership. In 2000, Gates appointed his longtime friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive and himself as "chief software architect. In his private life, on January 1, 1994, Gates married Linda French. They have three children, Jennifer Kathleen Gates (1996), Rory John Gates (1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). Together with his wife, Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization. Critics see the creation of the foundation as simply a response to negative public comments about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. But we should also note that, regardless of its motives, the foundation has made significant contributions to scholarships for poor students and to the fight against AIDS. In 2004, the British Foreign Office announced that Bill Gates would be enthroned by the Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to enterprise development, employment, education and voluntary work in the U.K. A KBE is the highest honorary distinction that the Queen can bestow on a foreign national. Estimated property value According to Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people, Gates' wealth is as follows: 1996 - $18.5 billion, in first place 1997 - $36.4 billion, in second place 1998 - $51 billion, in first place 1999 - $90 billion, No. 1 2000 - $60 billion, No. 1 2001 - $58.7 billion, No. 1 2002 - $52.8 billion, No. 1 2003 - $40.7 billion, No. 1 Award/Honor Record Record of Recognition by the The Guardian UK as one of the 100 most influential people in journalism in 2001 Named one of the most powerful people of 1999 by The Sunday Times UK Second place in Upside's Elite 100 of 1999 Time magazine's Elite 50 Internet Elite #1 of 1998 The Sporting News' 1997 Sports' 100 Most Powerful People of the Year CEO Magazine's 1994 CEO of the Year Entomologists have also named a flower bug after him, the Gates's aphid fly Crowned a knight by the Queen of England in 2004. Assets: How much money does Bill Gates really have? In 2004, which was the tenth year, Bill Gates sat atop the Forbes list of billionaires. The Microsoft co-founder and chairman has lived in a two-hectare, $110 million mansion since 1997. He was also the world's most generous man in 2004, with more than $3 billion in charitable donations.